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Symposium on Recollision Physics 2018 Chateau Montebello, Quebec 6\PSRVLXPRQ5HFROOLVLRQ3K\VLFV &KDWHDX0RQWHEHOOR4XHEHF&DQDGD 0D\±0D\ Chairs Francois Légaré Sylvain Charbonneau Institut national de la recherche scientifique University of Ottawa [email protected] [email protected] André Staudte David M. Villeneuve National Research Council of Canada National Research Council of Canada [email protected] [email protected] Indispensable help is gratefully acknowledged: Jennifer Vuong, Stephen Lee, Philippe-Thierry Douamba, Zack Dube 1 Internet Access INTERNET PASSCODE 3STEPS CONNECTION INSTRUCTIONS 1. For Wired Service: Connect the network cable to your device. For Wireless Service: Turn on the wireless service on your device, and if prompted, connect to the wireless network. 2. Open your web browser. This should automatically bring up the login page. if not please, type login.globalsuite.net into the web browser address bar and press Enter. 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Conference Coordinates Registration desk Welcome Reception Lobby Talks and Poster Sessions Salle d’Heritage Pool & Wellness Banquet Salle d’Outaouais Breakfast & Lunch Restaurant Aux Chantignoles Coffee breaks & Exhibitors Canada Mezzanine 2 General Information The Venue 392 Rue Notre Dame Montebello, QC J0V 1L0 Important Numbers Isabelle Haché (hotel manager): +1 819 423 3006 Francois Légaré: +1 514 228 6871 Nearby André Staudte: + 1 613 219 1483 Taxi (Allante Transportation): +1 613 791 6690 Plaisance Falls Visit the most impressive falls of the area: more than 200 feet drop before the Petite-Nation River reaches the Otta- Dining wa River. Enjoy their 1 km trail from the head to the feet of the fall, different observation areas, the Bel- Zouk Bar-Billard Delice Champetre vedere. On-site interpretive activities bring to 530 Rue Notre Dame 497 Rue Notre Dame life this important part of the history of the Pe- Tripadvisor rank #7 of 11, Tripadvisor rank #2 of 11, tite-Nation. $ - $$$ $ Bar, Pub, Fast food, Parc Omega Canadian, American Canadian, American Take a drive along 15 km of roads winding through 2,000 acres full of free-roaming wildlife Basics throughout the seasons: bison, elk, black bear, bighorn sheep, ibex, fallow deer, white-tailed deer, moose, Supermarket Pharmacy wolves, boars and small native species. Located on High- Marché Bonichoix Proxim pharmacie way 323, the park is located 10 minutes away from Fair- 641 Rue Notre Dame 299 Rue Papineau, mont Le Château Montebello. (1.7km from hotel) Papineauville Open daily 8am-9pm (8km from Montebello) 3 Preamble David Villeneuve Group Leader, Attosecond National Research Council of Canada Twenty-five year ago, in 1993, Paul Corkum published a landmark paper in Physical Review Letters. This paper provided a semi-classical picture of an electron, first removed from an atom by an intense laser field, then recolliding with its parent ion. This process is implicated in a number of strong-field processes, such as recollision excitation and high harmonic generation, and led to the field of attosecond science. Paul’s intuition, based upon previous work by many others, provided a simple picture that accurately explained many of the previous observations. This sole-author paper, P. B. Corkum, “Plasma perspective on strong field multiphoton ionization”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1994 (1993), has been so influential in many fields that it has been cited over 4500 times. This citation count puts the paper in the ranks of Nobel Prize winning material. The year, 2018, also marks another milestone, Paul Corkum’s 75th birthday. You would not know so, since his scientific output has increased dramatically since his “retirement” from the National Research Council 10 years ago. Paul founded the Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, between the National Research Council and the University of Ottawa. JASLab has major facilities at both locations, along with a large number of students and postdocs who work under Paul’s direction. This symposium is a celebration of two things: The remarkable career of Paul Corkum, who has had such a profound impact on so many people; and the field of science that was launched in 1993, a field that so many of the symposium’s participants still work in. David Villeneuve Ottawa, April 2018 4 Welcome Remarks Duncan Stewart Director General, Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre National Research Council of Canada E.W.R. Steacie, as president of the National Research Council of Canada in 1954, described with characteristic bluntness the difference between good and great research laboratories: “In a research organization, a few people make all the difference. If 5 per cent of the staff of a research laboratory are really first-rate, with imagination and initiative, all is well. […] The problem is to develop people of this type: to get behind them when they appear and give them the opportunity to develop themselves.” Steacie and his predecessor C.J. Mackenzie had recruited Gerhard Herzberg to the NRC in 1948 with exactly this aim. Both were particularly cognizant of the impact such people had in a government laboratory primarily preoccupied with longer range but applied research, and wrote to Herzberg: “We feel that not only will such a group engaged in fundamental research make valuable contributions to science but that such activity will maintain higher standards in the other more applied sections.” With that philosophy, Steacie and Herzberg built world-leading research efforts in photo- chemistry and spectroscopy at the NRC, efforts that delivered repeated major contributions to science and also, by proximity, to the NRC’s applied research. I suspect they might take wry pleasure in a symposium celebrating the spectroscopy of photo-chemistry! Most importantly, both would be enormously satisfied to see their vision of research excellence continued with such particular success by Paul Corkum, who by every possible standard is among the ‘few people that make all the difference’. Thank you for joining us in Canada at this symposium celebrating 25 years of re-collision physics. Duncan Stewart Ottawa, May 2018 5 Keynote Speakers Dr. Nemer holds a PhD in Chemistry from McGill University, and afterwards became a Professor of Pharmacology at the Université de Montréal. Subsequently, she became Professor and Vice-President, Research at University of Ottawa, and Director of the Molecular Genetics and Cardiac Regeneration Laboratory. Now she serves as Canada’s Chief Science Advisor. She is a Member of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Mona Nemer Science, a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec, and a Chief Science Advisor Canada Knight of the French Republic’s ordre national du Mérite. Dr. Tanguay received her Ph.D. in Parasitology from McGill University. From 2007-2011 she was the Assistant Deputy Minister for research, innovation, science and society with the Government of Québec, and from 2011-2015, the Vice-Rector, Research, Creation and Innovation at the Université de Montréal. She currently serves as the Vice-President of Emerging Techonlogies at the National Research Council of Canada, overseeing the Measurement Science and Standards Research Centre. She also oversees the Research Centre of Security and Geneviève Tanguay Disruptive Technologies, which is where NRC’s Vice-President Emerging Technologies, attosecond science is at home. National Research Council Dr. John Alcock came to the National Research Council of Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1965 after obtaining his PhD from Oxford. He joined the continuing staff of the NRC in 1966 and from 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Laser & Plasma Physics Section in the Division of Physics. He is currently a Researcher Emeritus working in the Frequency and Time Section of the Measurement Science and Standards Research Centre. During his career, Dr. Alcock has worked in the areas of laser-produced plasmas, transverse discharge gas John Alcock lasers, ultra-short pulse generation, diode-pumped solid- National Research Council state lasers and high resolution spectroscopic measurements. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society and the Royal Society of Canada. 6 Session Chairs Ladan Arissian Boris Bergues TJ Hammond National Research Council Max Planck Institute University of Ottawa of Canada of Quantum Optics [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Heide Ibrahim Ebrahim Karimi Matthias Kübel Institut national de la recherche Ludwig Maximilian University of University of Ottawa scientifique Munich [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jérôme Levesque Moritz Meckel Andrew Shiner Department of National Defence, Baker & McKenzie Ciena Canada [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Murat Sivis Giulio
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